Episodes
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Ep. 30 - Creed 2
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Hey yo, folks. For the 4th time (and for the 3rd time in the past 14 months), we drop a 'cast about the Rocky Balboa odyssey on this channel, this time talkin' Creed 2.
The 30th “Scoring At The Movies” episode takes us back to just this past fall when Creed 2 was all the rage (or at least some of the rage). Michael B. Jordan & his co-stars are rock-solid and the movie is vivid enough, but it doesn’t have the emotional kick (punch?) of the 2015 Ryan Coogler picture, nor the stupid enjoyability of the Sly Stallone-directed ’80s entries. Chris didn’t love the overstuffed hyperbole either.
Some of this sequel is great, some of it is just…not. We're just hoping Florian Munteanu won't hunt us down for butchering his name. It's pronounced "Mun-tee-aw-new". Anyway, we spend nearly an hour ruining his name and explaining our viewpoints, so stop reading and start listening!
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Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Ep. 29 - The Natural
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Thursday Jul 11, 2019
While it's cool that Bret Hart got his catchphrase from this film (and did we ever take advantage of that fact!), we sure didn't feel like The Natural was the best there is, was or ever will be. There just wasn’t enough divine influence (a theme we didn’t really discuss in this 29th Scoring At The Movies episode) or movie magic to make us love Robert Redford’s ultra-famous baseball flick the way we used to.
The star is as likable as always, but he’s REALLY miscast...and not just because of his age. Director Barry Levinson’s fantasical flicker show is a logical mess, which brought about a slew of Reasonably Good Questions… even though we didn’t actually call them that. Maybe the best angle on this movie is to see it as Roy’s fever dream or maybe even a sensationalized story written by Max Mercy. It’s got some great moments (the ending, man, the ending!), but we spent over an hour ripping on the not-so-great ones. Oh and to answer Chris’ question about better casting for Roy Hobbs? Kurt Russell!
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